1. Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature
Jack, the King of Ashes
By Andy Jones
Publisher: Running Goat Books & Broadsides
Dear Canada: Flame and Ashes: The Great Fire Diary of Triffie Winsor
By Janet McNaughton
Publisher: Scholastic Canada Ltd.
The End of the Line
By Sharon E. McKay
Publisher: Annick Press Ltd.
2. APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award, Sponsored by Friesens Corporation
Breakwater Books for
A Sudden Sun
By: Trudy J. Morgan-Cole
Nimbus Publishing for
Atlantic Coastal Gardening: Growing Inspired, Resilient Plants by the Sea
By: Denise Adams
Creative Book Publishing for
Island Kitchen: An Ode to Newfoundland
By Chef Mark McCrowe with Sasha Okshevsky
3. Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing, Sponsored by Marquis Book Printing
Equal as Citizens: The Tumultuous and Troubled History of a Great Canadian Idea
By Richard Starr
Publisher: Formac Publishing Company Ltd.
Those Splendid Girls: The Heroic Service of Prince Edward Island Nurses in the Great War
By Katherine Dewar
Publisher: Island Studies Press
Bringing Home Animals: Mistissini Hunters of Northern Quebec (2nd Ed.)
By Adrian Tanner
Publisher: ISER Books, Memorial University of Newfoundland
4. Dartmouth Book Award for Non-fiction in Memory of Robbie Robertson,
Presented by the Kiwanis Club of Dartmouth
Fire in the Belly: How Purdy Crawford rescued Canada, and changed the way we do business
By Gordon Pitts
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing
Double Pregnant: Two Lesbians Make a Family
By Natalie Meisner
Publisher: Roseway Publishing
Winds of Change: The Life and Legacy of Calvin W. Ruck
By Lindsay Ruck
Publisher: Pottersfield Press
5. Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing
Perished: The 1914 Newfoundland Sealing Disaster
By Jenny Higgins
Publisher: Boulder Publications
Something of a Peasant Paradise?: Comparing Rural Societies in Acadie and the Loudunais, 1604-1755
By Gregory M. W. Kennedy
Publisher: McGill-Queens University Press
They Called Me Chocolate Rocket: The Life and Times of John Paris, Jr., Hockey’s First Black Professional Coach
By John Paris Jr. with Robert Ashe
Publisher: Formac Publishing Company Ltd.
6. Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction), presented by Boyne Clarke
Punishment
By Linden MacIntyre
Publisher: Random House Canada
Just Beneath My Skin
By Darren Greer
Publisher: Cormorant Books
Grist: a novel
By Linda Little
Publisher: Roseway Publishing
7. Lillian Shepherd Award for Excellence in Illustration
Illustrator: Sydney Smith (nominee)
Music is for Everyone
(Written by Jill Barber)
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing
Illustrator: Michael Pittman (nominee)
Wow Wow and Haw Haw
(Written by George Murray)
Publisher: Breakwater Books
Illustrator: Nancy Rose (nominee)
The Secret Life of Squirrels
(Written by Nancy Rose)
Publisher: Penguin Canada
8. Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, sponsored by Collins Barrow LLP, Weed Man Maritimes, and the family of John and Margaret Savage
Vienna Nocturne: a novel
By Vivien Shotwell
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Eating Habits of the Chronically Lonesome: stories
By Megan Gail Coles
Publisher: Creative Book Publishing
Where I Belong: Small Town to Great Big Sea
By Alan Doyle
Publisher: Doubleday Canada